1 I) THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: MAKC3I 20, 1910. Buddha's Greatest Monument Built at Rangoon Over Eight Holy Hairs ,1 y ' wKiwrnmmmmsjmmmmnmmrwmmmmmrt t.. f Miw mi m iji mjummiu LMii il lijih- hb. j mummm. inn nin ns n i .- J .." ' . ' V . . ', ' -i . , . - . ! i ,, ... . m &z v. fv Vrr:. U ' : I'M m res? v ' T . i -i y 1, 1:) A iff 1 .1 ,i Hi '1 Veil's 1 'it (f r : i 1 OlT THE PA&OM PLiTFORTT... Copyila:h. 1910. hy Frunk O. Carpntfr .A.NUOON, 1H10. (Special I'orre- R. SHWE DAG ON PiGOD look mall ("am this point. It Is big enoufh to rover a good iled house, and it La spr.nnVncu of The Ilee.) Come studded with Jewels. Miten to the golden wlih me this morning for a look at the Hhwe Daon Paffodii. the holiest shrine of th Ruddhlst bells whloh hang around Its rim, tinkling in the breeze. The sound Is mingled with the singing of birds and the rustling of IJio.WO when It was made, a generation ago. something like Kree C.I rt to Buddha. This groat structure and all Its sur roundings were formed by tinforred gifts from the worshlpera of Buddha. The labor upon it waa voluntary, and when the king sent out a notice that It was to be, built, money and jewels flowed In to him from all parts of Burma. The monument la kept up by the free-will offerings of the people. It has been plated with gold leaf again and again, until the brick and stucco of religion. It Is the mecca of one- nalm la w.a Th.i i.mkAiu .v " ' ' o. u-h uilli.l Clta l,UOl I1IMIO II11U1 """" 4,1 ""aiiKinn. and the nine million fol lowers of the prophet who live here In Burma consider it the most sacred spot pon earth. The paoila stands on a little hill on the banks of the Irawadl river In this rid-hot town of Hanaoon. The sun here In Uriidly at noonday, p.nd we get up with the irons. 'I heir cawing begins t e fore day, ai.d the light Is Just coming through the palm trees as we sit down In the hotel bid rooms to our tea, toast and Jam before starting out. A black turbaned Hlidu with a rat like Indian pony carries us In his gharry ' .-.... ..i iviiikoum. e which is us maae contain more of the pre- pass half-nuked coolies on their way to clous metal than the best ore of our big work; Jostle the street water works, con- western mines. Istlng of bare-logged , men, who. with One of the last king, of Burma once made buckets, are sprinkling the roads; turn a vow that he would give hi weight In out for the carts hauled by humped bull- gold to the monument. After he had taken ocks carrying great loads, and at last pass a bath, and scrubbed himself down to tho Su?" .v ectlon of bungalows. In lowt possible number of pound, he which the better classes of the city live, Jumped on one side of the scales and plied tnd are dropped at the foot of Fagoda hill, up gold to the other. It took Just enough to make It cost him 46,000. With the money more srold Hn,,rt. n.. now 7 o'clock this bright Sunday ... .v.. " " . " . uwer j , . - ,- " iv.oivto a irnsn coat, and the worahlpere are out In t k... t 7 " " "'" oiiv-fi ui rrom the old. Th enuw i-iuion are going in and out of the III ; 04 V . .-.5 J .... boy. XiSKr.. 1 7.rii'Jst : : 5 " ' 1 K - vrw--r r rr r v ti- - -t i i . ti i k-.' - . - t 1 via rtftw A ONE OF THt CHAPE1S SHOWING THE. CARVING. . -1 fesri VJ log of wood. According to Buddhist beaflflo look upon hla face, evidently be saying me sins or the worst man are a thousand times less than those of tho best woman that ever lived. Nevertheless there are numerous convents all over this coun try and nuns ore everywhere found. We see many priests worshiping about the pagoda. Here comes one now; lie must be sixty years old and hla brown facn Is withered, his neck shrunken and his thin legs seem to totter. He is clsd only In two strips of bright yellow cotton, his right thoulder and arm being bare. In his If ft hand Is a pair of old sandals, the sweaty outlines of his foot marked on the yellow leather, and in his right he cnrili'S a small bunch of rosea. He kneels on the bricks with the tropical sun beating down upon his shaved head, and holds up the flowers as he prays. "After a time he gin's to a chapel and lays them on the knees of a great golden Buddha. There are many family parties praying, men, women and children kneeling together. They all act as though their religion was Moving that he has acquired mertL About the Shrines. Ijiter on we make a tour of the shrlnest There are a hundred or more, all ending In spires of gold far below the spire of this great golden mountain. All are Beau tifully carved, and some are walled with, colored glass, so sot In golden wires that when the sun shines they show the many splendors of the peacock's tall. Th liuddhaa within htive offerings of flowtra, fruit and rice lying before them. At rom candles are burning and on their laps) offerings of brocade, and Bilks have buen placed. We are touched by the sentiment shown by the worshipers. They are of all clafcHe.4 and conditions; some poor, sick and sad, but must are rich and well dressed and apparently Joyful. All seem self-respecting, and it wo")IU b unfair to ay thai they j not m earnest in their religion. I am told that tie Bur mese are naturaujr religious. They ar charitable. M.n fi VL' h A n ftvA r fris Ha sa sii i r-tvli i si one of rejoicing. They laugh and smoke he spende It In fticUng resthouse or place AH tViahtx lliatr tn anil nvnarvu Tlw.w along the toad where travelers can have a cn their way to and from prayers. They hold their heads high and are evidently proud of both Buddha and Burma. Morn In a; at the fthrlnr. It Is morning Superstitious Worshipers. e whole mighty monument has hardly a tarnish apot on It. It Is covered with gold, purer than that In an American gold eugle, and It shines like a new wed ding ring. The lower part of the structure entrance find peddlers of flowers Incense T ? " 1B terraced ..V " oi nowers, incense around M ,t ,,,, upward. -.,,-.1,,, mi.e test houses along the way. Each carries a begging bowl for the rice offerings which are freely given. We see scores of worship ers on their way to the shrine, and at the and candles to be offered to the gods over head. Ws can see the great pagoda long before we reach it. Its golden spire kisses the sky 600 feet above the spot where we get down from our gharry. With the hill upon which It stands the monument Is as tall as the great marble shaft erected to Wash ington on the banks of the Potomac; and as we look up we are datled by tho blaze of gold upon it. and the wonderful struc tures which form Its base. The sides of the hill are covered with carved buildings, each and often plated with gold, running clear a native king about seventy years ago. real. Peo this woman knee-ling here at tnf around the great monument. These are on When the English took the country they right. Her pink silk gown Is wrapped the average, I should say, something like decided to carry It off to London as a tightly about her body, and her bare feet thirty feet high, ending In spires plated trophy. Tho got the bell down as far as stick out behind. She Is rising and falling 3Ut what is this coming around the with gold. They are much like chapels, the Irawadi river, but In attempting to nd counting her beads aa she sings out corner from the other side of the great and Inside each of them Is a sitting statue load It on a vessel It fell Into the stream, her prayers. She has flowers In her hands, golden spire? It Is a middle-aged man. of Buddha, often of more than life siae. and their engineers could not raise It and as we watch she rises and lays them alternately rlslnt and falllnir He wtars again, upon tnts, some Kurmans came cn me lap oi a uuaana in one or me up a.iiu unr.cu ii nicy misui uj ma ueu aark as thut of a negro. - He Is a if they could put It back In Us place. The On the other side of us are three Bud- Budddhlst from India and he muat have English, with a sneer, granted their re- dl lst nuns. They are dressed In plain something of the Hindu in his religion, quest, having no Idea that they could sue- yellow cotton and have little more than a for he Is prostrating himself on the brick ceed. The Burnians went at once to work, sheet of this stuff wrapped around them, platform and measuring the distance They used no machinery, but by means Their heads are shaved close. Thev hol.1 arm inH th a I) a trad n with liln hulf nnli f ing a court several hundred feet wide be- 0f thousands of men working together they out cloths, upon which the people throw form, saying a prayer every time he The monument stands over r.rt. ,i. . "1 " .7"l,.J v. " VT ,7. ,1"ea lno " 1 "P " nas ana oiienngs as mey pass sy. r.acu nun nas spreads himself . . . .. "'" "" "'8. "omo oi wiucn nave reclining nuaonas carried t back to where It now stands on a rofiarv about her neck, and aha nll her c.B,.i iianH wnicn ion or more ree In lenath. anrl at th t j. - rnvua head, and back at one corner Is the great Buddhist and smaller and ends In the spire KUht Holy HsJrTf the Prophet Some of these statues nre gold plated, others are of silver, and not a few of alabaster or marble. They hug the base of the mighty pagoda. Third BlB-aest lie II of the World. Hound the edges of tho platform, leav- oool drink of water. They hava spotted th whole country with pagodas; they are to be found In every town and village and on al most every hill. There are monasteries everywhere, and the country baa more re ligious monument, perhaps, than ajiy other of its slae in the world. A oensus taken some years ago showed that there are more than 15.000 monasteries and tKat Rurnnm. turban and waistcloth and hla skin Is ha4 on the avemtso one for every nlnety. of Buddha the prophet pulled from his f,-.o w.e iwo Burmese brothers who bell, which Is said to be the third largest planted them here. That was many years of its kind In the world. It weighs forty ago. and since then the followers of two tons, and It would take something like Hill. beads as she prays. Buddhists at rrayers. 1 1 . w I . i, . . . , - a uui iTi u f piivii o ' v 1 1 iur jinuuq (fir fir-J r j. ? wor8hl' Thft hore8 to haul it if It could be put Urm and have a' look at the people v.rLfr V. ,hC Bl, 588 upon wnN"" ,nd dra"' over the roads, prayers. All the worshiping Is done In t years before Christ was born, and the of which Is a Jewel, anda gorgeous covered Pr""nt fuctura wus already In place 100 Women unci Their Sins. But let us stroll around the pagoda plat- The Buddhist religion takes but small sc at count of women, and the rules are such he that a monk cannot reside under the same candle. He picks It up and then pros trates himself once more on his face and out with his face to the bricks. He lies flat on the floor and puts hla hare arms as far out as he can reach, stretching every muscle from the ends of his toes to the lips of his fingers. He presses his fingers hard upon the bricks and marks his limit of reach with a candle. He then rises and walks to l his avenue or gold, with a rltlgo roof upheld by white marble pillars, leads by stair ways to the platform above. The platform Itself covers fourteen acres, or aa much space as the Pyramid of Cheops, and It Is from this that the gold spire starts. Hut first let us make our way up thi.gh the arcades. There Is no road on earth more curious than that which leads to the shrine. Its stone floor has through out the ages been polished by the bare feet of the thousands who have tramped up to pray. The worshipers take off their sandals as they come to the entrance, and walk on with them In their hands. We foreigners kep our shoes on and ml with the crowd. As we go In we hear the birds sing. Thousands of them have inada nests In the carvings, and they fly back and forth through the arcades and about the Pagoda from daylight to dark. At night they roost on the gold. According to the ,ge law. it is so thick trim the yellow-gowned opi n. There are scores of men, women roof with a nun. He cannot travel in a priest who acts as my guide can Just and children kneeling on the bare bricks, cart or boat with a woman, and onu of the touch the inside of the rim with his Their hands are folded and tUoy look up books of the low says that he must not fingers while the outside, rests In the at the spire as they pray. Thpy are not touch her. and that If any woman, even crook of his elbow. He strikes It with n i,irinr ti, smull pagoda about the base of the great deer horn and the sound booms out on the nor the images, but come to this holy place must not offer his hand to help her out. .T.D 'agv., n.iu uiin nicie are nunarens air, years before Boston was founded. Today the Buddhists consider It an a ...urn CTuie iinnrpon 10 neaven to erect a to renew their vows, to think upon Buddha He may hold forth a stick, but If she of little tenyles, most exquisitely carved This bell was presented to Buddha by and repent of their sins. Their worship Ih grasps It he muat Imagine he' Is pulling at or four prays, using the candle to mark the spot where his finger tips rest. He goes fast, the whole circuit of the puguda being cov ered In less than an hour. Wo watch him at the end of his Journey. As ho com pletes the circuit he lies praying for three minutes, and then rises with a Military Career of General Charles Morton U. S. A. A FTER. having served his country Iment specially mentioned in the report of service in Arizona his regiment was or- bands, covering the country by his seout- bj a soldier fur nearly fifty years, still active and virile, Brigadier General Charles Mor ton nas placed on the retired list of the United StateR A Pill V Friday, March 18, with the r.ink of bslgadier general, because of his having reached the the battle for conspicuous bravery, three dered to the Departmet of the Platte In from the Arkansas and Republican were the officers of Morton's company, Lieutenant Morton taking station at Fort rivers .n the smith almost to the Yellow- and Charley Morton himself was recom- D. A. Russell, Wyo. Indian troubles broke stono on the north, having numerous en- inended by his regimental commander for out with the Sioux near the White Cloud counters with th hohtlles. He made an a congressional medal of honor for dis- agency, now the town of Crawford, Neb., exploration from Sidney, Neb., and located tinguibhed bravery In the battle. and Lieutenant Morton was soon In the tliu road to tho camo of tiooos In 187J In 1RT5 Lieutenant Morton made a sur vey of the Black Hills country, which hud been previously marked "unexplored" on the maps, and that winter he worked up his notes Into a map at department headquarters In Omaha. Hardly had he reiurnea rrom that duty when he was limit which bv .v.......... . .mum wi iiiriu wuu ni iiuui ui imuiij. mai is now run iujiiimmhi ana wnicn laier seieciea ana appointed adjutant of the Big - - - - lu 1 , 1 L MR HO IIU1C IUl1.1 , ' I I in LlillC 1WI I , 1. 1 1 1 " lilt. H I rl It IUUIH IIU1I1 llllf V 1,1 Kirn H Tin . l :,,U'uN,,i., ..v ...i I Tl. u lT, . , "uumKl reugnm. it is a sin to 'e,tKB.es me efficient, experienced paigns and operations down the Missis- .i....n iniii nas lire, and the birds me quiciuae and inactivities of sippi, western Tennessee and southeast know they are In the house of their friend retirement." Missouri snd in the Atlanta campaign of . . v, ,rn'Ta MoI,on' fl,r ,he two and a lstil. He was discharged September 14. min. . F S'n"- ? commanJ,r of Department having participated" In the battle, of Love- wv nrM"'UiJ WS p"" bo0t,", B" ths . M 3"Url- bo,n March ls- Joy1" Station and Jonesboro after hi. term - x.u.i.ib B,ns wun plugs or layatioga county, Ohio, of enlistment had expired nearly (our years, aitox th marauding tba Black, tillla. j. i t-iuumuiiy I. the Toie. of Zw . mV t h u m b - uescenuant or the early colonial New abandoned the opportunity to make th. on the is LT Mt cru""W -,Uf'"nU ' 1" autumn of isu March to the Sea. in order to accept a prof- The c.d?e "s. J TT' lr BUd"h"- c6 7mM,d W",h r" ParW," DavleSS commission In th. Korty-thlrd Mis- as thin as tie finger of a -year-old baby Ohio his family was a neighbor of the Joseph Mo to greut cylinders of wax tall . ,,- Oarflel.la. and hl nM.r hrn,h... V ' . ... rlr s w ho are suin n., .. , . . , t- i m aiissoun, ne oar. y escaped V:Z,yTZTj e'upers'and " James ,h. Central.a massacre, and found Z give them over to one of ,V. . i V, tate Invaded by the confederate army. She smZ with dehgh, at the T''", YTS "."n ""'"T M h'"9 COUnt' wlth the sins that will be washed awlv ,, V V In' S2. f" dat"' uerl,,M- Ile bd"d P""- burn, and thanks me pr ' use.y T , ? , ttbna?ly" oun " commission and lent all hi. energies A llttl. beyond this , are slopped bv a LT , ,. h determination, to Ui. hasty organUatlon of th, local en- priest with . nlckel-ln-the-slot bo, " .1 . '"' company In rolled militia and started out after the sround his bare neck bv a . " h"r br"o0 th. .outhern part of guerillas. He .ncountered the noted Bill I'awc. county. iney took a solemn oath Anderson and his band on Fishing river of fidelity to th. union, to protect their near the nrem.nl town w,i...' homes and the union Interests. Charles and succeeded in scattering the band and Morton was the youngest of four brothers, killing Anderson. This battle restored a sll of whom entered the union army during lasting peace to northern Missouri, th. war. Th. horn, guard company was General James Craig, commanding th. ventually merged into the service as Com- military district, presented youn Morton pany 1. Thirteenth Missouri Volunteer- in- with one of th. revolver. . .i s. i - lunrrv aw i. .. . . . . inrouKN. n is a mass or bright rolora. ' " pu. aio. i ne regiment was Body or Bill Anderson as a recognition of The Dci rroe we.r the most dellcste pinks. "on c"lled ,nt sctlve service, lata In th. his services In this expedition. Morton wis yellons a-.l greens. The men have silk ,ummer of WoU and participated In the engaged In several other .xoedltinn. .lit. en- sum fall own oy a sii hit u has a little brass triangle tied to his right Index flnrcr .n.f h, u..ii...u . . - - ..r. uon mis as he prays, making a sound like a bell. The passer-by drop coins Into the slot anl thereby acquire merit and prayers. I'pon reaching the top of the avenue, which is about L0O0 feet long, we turn and look back upon the gay crowd passing turbu-s is gay as ralnbjw. and the m ' D,ooay le'8 of Lexington, and In which th. militia, with which k. . .m.n . a MiriuiiM-.ii nnirn makes the dark -"-. compelled to surrender rolled in th. fall of litfi. Utu th. f a mass V-nddba's nass of bright hues. s -UolaUa Muaatai -...-iKiiuinK iorc. of confederates he received an appolatmant to th. Wut under General Sterling Price. After being Point Military academy at Ui hands of released from captivity. th. regiment was Major GenwsJ Benjamin T. Loan, to which somewhat demoralised ma, ,ater pj.. h- nporUd , Jun. reorganised Into th Twenty-fifth Missouri Upon his grsduatlon In U9 h was as- Infantry. It was assigned to the western signed to the Third I'nlted States cavalry armies under General Grant .n t..u .... .-h u.,,. . . ,. ... t. h.r. ..v .r.r,.nn. .. . ii , - - ... j.,..,a nis . u K. . ,yKUIIU, jrt ln ,h, blU1, regiD,ent at Fort l.-nlon. New Mexico. II. half a dozer, b ook, of on. of our cltl.s and of Hhllon. opening that great h.tu was engaged in numerous Indian cam ,h. monum.nt .Jon. ha. at th. b . Morton's colonel and major w.r. killed paig... against th. Apach.s and N.V.- clicumferenoe of a quarter of a mil.. That and his csptaln and fir., u . . . . V . 7 ' - , . ..,,..n. .mu . " capiain ana rirst U.uteosjit Joes In Arlsons and N.w Mexico. Afi.r golden umbr.ll Which you see oa th. spit, aounded. Of the air fl,..- , . . . "r wwuuucd. iUa an orHcers ef th. r.g- two or mor. years of th hardest kind of I'.u' rome out oa th. platform and look up at th. Vagoda. I despair of describing it. It is a mountain of gold which ends In a spire nesrly ti) feet high. Tho stone plat- nsWsfjBw75A, 5'vMxvtvvrvtt? vvtlcrv! pedltlon was one of the most severe winter campaigns and General Crook gave up all hope of accomplishing more thun prevent ing terrible disaster, the campaign result ing, however. In that splendid engagement on Powder river, March 17, 1Y76, with Craxy Horse's band and being the overwhelming are awakened ef daybreak defeat of the Indians. His subsequent cam paigning In the north and northwest in cluded many of the notable battles and skirmishes from 1K72 to 18.S2 with t lie fcloux. The outbreak of the Indian troubles ln Arixona in 1VS2, beginning at San Carlos and leaving a bloody trail to tho Mexican border, found Morton serving at Fort Mc Klnney. On July 6, 1SX2, the Indians made a sortie at Pan Carlos, a-'sussinated their thre houses. At that time there were 9 000 men In the monasteries, or more than I per oent of the whole population. Monk, of Burma, It must be remembered, however, that the personnel of the monastery Is con stantly changing. Men come In and go out. Boys put on the yellow robe of th priest hood and lay It aside ln order to marry. According to the faith, aa taught here, every Buddhist man or boy must be a, monk before his soul can be born. Until then he is a beast, and, 1f he dies, is sure to be reborn ln some filthy body ln hla next transmigration. When a boy enters a monastery b lays aside his good clothes and puts on a single sheet of rough yellow cotton. His head Is now shaved, and he goes forth to beg. No marnW what his circumstances may have been, while he Is in the monastery he must live upon the gifts of the people, snd he goes forth daily with his begging bowl and takes what Is offered. He does this, no mat ter how high he rises nor how long he stays. The usual time for entering th monas tery Is at the approach of manhood. Th youth are admitted on probation, and they first act as servants, ttr chelahs, for the monks, having about the same place as Kim had with the old abbot ln Rudyard Kipling's delightful novel of Indian life. Once admitted, the boys are supposed to devote themselves to holy living, thinking and doing. They are taught the principle of Buddhist faith and are urged, to spend their lives going shout doing good. Borne of them take the priesthood as a profes sion and others stay but a ehort time, for they can come and go at will. I Life In the Monasteries. I have visited some of the monasteries during my stay ln Burma. The life in them Is by no means exciting. The monks by a wooden bell, and are supposed to be at their prayers us early as 0:30 In the morning. As soon aa he rises every monk washes his hands and face and rinses his mouth. He then smooths out the robe ln which he has slept over night and goes Into prayers. After thut he takes up his duties about the monastic establishment; he may sweep the floors of the temple, or water the garden, or do odd Jobs of various khsls. The work of the Institution Is chief of police and broke for the roughest dlvld.d and each man has his own Job. Chakles 0RT07T CENXRAL U SA. country possible ln order to evade pursuit. Morton was assigned to the pursuing com mand. He participated In tht big fight In the canyon of Chevelon's Fork, put down In the records as "Bltf liay Wanli." July 17, where some won medals of honor and others were damned by faint praise, and where there were honors enough for all, for the Indians got a good drubbing. Following the surrender of Ueronliuo ln lbb. Morton's regiment was ordered to O'exas, a march of over L0U0 mile, where he was stationed for six years. He had reached Ids captaincy at this time. He was aixtgned to recruiting duty In lK2-4, and following this duty Mas detailed as pro fesior of military science und tactics at the Ie La Halle institute In New York City. It wa while o engaged that the Kpanlsh Amerlcan war broke out. He Immediately applied to Join his regiment and a placed ln command of one squadron of the regi ment which was engaged An th skirmish line at the sssault on the Spanish trenches S4 San Juan Hill. Hla regimental coin- After a short while the monks all meet together and start out to beg. Headed by the chief pitcst, they walk In company through the main streets of the town with, their begging bowls In their hands. They do not ask alms nor cull at the houoes, but men-ly walk along single file in th middle of each street, having their eyes fixed on the ground. Each priest hold his begging bowl In front of him and th people come and pour ln their offerings. The priests do not give thanks, beHrvlng that they confer a favor In allowing th people to give. The begging procession lacts for an hour or so. When it Is com pleted the monks go back to the mon astery, whet, they lay a part of their gifts before th. statue of Buddha and spread the rj,t mit for breakfast. I hear It whispered, however, that most of th monasteries have a hot breakfast as well. The rnonks eat anofhr meal about noon and a dinner toward evening. Those I hav seen look fat and healthy and nona mandr being badly wounded during Lb. ''"r, th won for th. fasting aad mwr mm rrugiuui profession. Continued on Pag. Four.). 'UANK 0, UaJU'JaN7i&rV